DelQuinn

Definitely difficult to narrow down to just one favourite, there are so many minifigs now and there are a lot of cool and interesting ones. So the one that I'd highlight is the one that I use for my avatar. it's one that I pieced together myself when I got back into Lego a few years ago. Looking through some of the new idea books, I saw the red jacket torso with the classic space logo on it and loved it. I ordered a few of them and used them to make a few different minifigs. I have since used this one in almost all of my Lego social media accounts and my Lego Ideas account pic. I named him Zack, after the old 'Lego Maniac' commercials from the '80s. I have this one standing here at my desk at work.

For updating official sets, I've only done this once with the 6894 Blacktron Invader. I replaced the hinges on the back section (The ones holding the trans-red plates) with the more modern locking versions. The original hinges are notoriously week and prone to breaking easily. the locking version doesn't look noticeably different on the set and it allows the trans-red plates to be held in place better. The set can be displayed more dynamically and more like the box art and official pics of the set. Original hinges: 4275b and 4276b replacement hinges: 44301 and 44302

Wow I didn't realize they were that expensive at the moment! Checking Bricklink, they are more around the $35-40 each here in Canada. A couple years ago I picked up the Exo-suit set for about $50.00, those minifigs alone are worth more than that lol. They are probably the most valuable minifigures I have at the moment.

Thanks :) I have done some stuff on Lego Ideas before. I digitized the Blacktron ship and the grey with green canopy for a Ideas contest years ago. I might be fun to send them in as product ideas and see how they do. I should take some more pictures on the ships before I digitize them and disassemble them soon. https://ideas.lego.com/s/ca:62d8b2574bff49e0b06a8d762de58e91 https://ideas.lego.com/s/ca:48d18cd46ce843bcbe621f19c70b6ef2 I used the digital files to recreate those two ships. I'm glad that I did, I think the Blacktron one was the most popular of mine at the show. (I am also working on a few other ideas for sending into Lego Ideas, its hard to find time to work on them lol)

I've had similar experiences like this growing up. I'm sorry to hear about the more physical issues you dealt with, I never had to deal with that level. I am in my 40s now, when I was a teenager, Lego was looked down on by anyone over the age or 12 and so I hid the fact that I still built with it. Admittedly, I was always the quiet, geeky, nerdy kid at school and the attitude around school always made me a bit ashamed I was still into Lego. It was hard to talk to my friends about it that have moved on. At the time, I foolishly gave 90% of my sets to my brother which I regretted ever since. (I have been able to recover them from him but the condition of some of it was a bit disappointing, but on a side note i have restored almost the entire collection in recent years) I was amazed a few years ago then I learned of the whole AFOL community and have fully re-embraced it. Even though that stigma is still sticking to the back of my mind, I am trying to ignore it and have as much fun in the Lego community. Earlier this year we were at a mall and saw my local LUG have a display set up. My wife urged me to join and I did shortly after that. This past weekend I participated in my first show and had a lot of fun interacting with club members as well as the public checking out everyone's work.

They are alternative light covers for X-T Starship Light and Sound set 6780. The set uses the red and green covers but also included the yellow ones as well. It was one of my favorite sets when I was a kid

I think (correct me if I'm wrong) refering to these old releases https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6703-1#T=S&O={"iconly":0} https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6301-1#T=S&O={"iconly":0}

I just came across this thread. Amazing work, I am currently working on restoring my old space sets. I have most of them fully restored or mostly restored at this point, not that I had a large collection as a kid. I'm now starting to expand and see which of the sets I didn't have that I can start acquiring parts to build them up. The 918 is my oldest set and definitely most worn out. For the restored version, I do have new wing plates and other parts without bite marks but I wanted to keep as much of the original pieces as I could

I think this is a complex topic and there is no right or wrong answers. The Netflix series "The Toys That Made Us" had a episode on the history of LEGO that was really good. In that they mentioned that the molds are destroyed to prevent them being used/copied by their competition. I don't know about if that is still a valid explanation or not with the amount of clones in the market. I also found another thread on here on this topic that also mentions that the molds wear out over time, which also makes sense. I've read indications that the lifespan of a mold is approx. 2 years. The large amount of variants for numerous elements does indicate that the molds are changed, replaced and updated over time. In all honesty, since getting back into LEGO the past few years I am amazed how many pieces they have brought back and/or keep going after all these years

It is my understanding that once a part is discontinued, they destroy the mold for it. Or at least dispose/recycle them so they don't have any old ones in storage. Of course they might have a few for classic pieces (like 2x4 bricks) in museums here and there.

This looks amazing! I've been wanting to make a good minifigure scale delorean and clock tower for awhile now. The clock tower looks great and really captures the essence of the scene from the movie.

Thanks! Whatever it was, I played with the settings and the last time I submitted it, it was finally accepted thanks for the help and input

Hello, I have been attempting to enter a Bricklink studio design into one of the contests on the Lego Idea's website. the entry keep getting rejected because they claim it is too blurry and/or pixelated. I have submitted several designs built in Studio before without problems so I am having trouble understanding. Are they are suggestions on how to improve the rendering process for make sure the images comes out better and clearer? Thank you

I have been playing around with the various settings but usually I use High render quality (256) but last night I tried upping it to Very High (512). I believe the resolution I have been using is 1080 x 1080. I have been using transparent backgrounds to add them in later but last night I turned them off to see if that makes a difference.

It is definitely an awesome design, original and outside the box thinking. I've already supported it when it was first posted. Sadly, my design won't make it as well. I know it's been discussed here before but it would be nice to see classic space do better on Ideas. The only one to hit 10,000 was the Exo-suit, and it did win at that time. even if they don't get selected it would be nice to see more classic space hit that mark. This one will probably make it: https://ideas.lego.com/s/p:bcc52725df484522aeeea34dba13889a

Hello, Here is my entry for the contest. I wanted to go old school with this one and stay ad true as possible to classic space in design and part selection. It is a peaceful exploration craft for 2 Minifigures and a robot. There is a mini scout ship in the back. Inside the ship is a research area and collection samples can fit in the storage on the sides (sorry for the quality of the pics. Worked hard on the design but not yet good at taking good photos to show them off)

Whenever possible, I try to use an many original pieces as I can. I am currently in the process of restoring my old sets. Here is my 918 from when I was a kid. The first picture was what original pieces I had left (Honestly there was more than I was expecting) and then the second picture is the cleaned and restored version. In this case, I found a slope piece that still had a good space logo on it so I swapped that out (I still have my original safely tucked away). It's still not 100% done, you can see one of the supports on the bottom are black instead of grey. Its an expensive piece to replace and haven't had the chance yet to order one. The red spaceman is one of my originals from a different set, placed to make this one complete for the photo

Good luck fingers crossed. I wonder if those were a factor in the rejection, the rules on acceptable images are hard to understand sometimes, especially when there are numerous examples where they are allowed when they are not supposed to be. From their guidelines: DO NOT CREATE MOCKUPS OF LEGO PRODUCT BOXES (“BOX ART”) OR MARKETING MATERIALS IN YOUR IMAGES. Product ideas including box art or anything that attempts to mock up product marketing materials will not be accepted. Mocked-up box art confuses people into thinking your idea is something they can buy right now. If your product idea reaches 10,000 supporters and is approved for production, our designers will create the final packaging designs for the set.

I see that it has been approved and posted on the site. I've already supported it too looks like an awesome design!

My two cents regarding the LEGO Ideas topic, (although I am a bit biased since I have a project up on LEGO Ideas and more planned) You do have to sign away your rights when you submit an idea, it's part of the risk/rewards assessment you have to make at the time. For LEGO to release a set they need to work on it for years to get it to market, through design stages and production approvals and marketing and box graphics etc. I think the argument should be more towards why does LEGO allow you to post ideas that might be in the works elsewhere in the company. Its safe to say that the employees that run Ideas are not the same employees who run the Disney IP designs In terms of the Snow White example, maybe they should've said it could not be submitted. Disney is a big portfolio for LEGO and especially regarding to Disney Princesses. It's not out of the question that, eventually, they would do a Snow White set. So people shouldn't be surprised when something like this happens. their list of not allowed IP is actually rather large, but maybe they need to be more quick to update it. As for plagiarism, its hard to say on an open forum like Ideas. If I see an IP that I really like hit 10K and then not get accepted. What happens if I decide to build something from the same IP? What if my design is accepted? Would that first person claim that I plagiarized them? Sorry for rambling a bit, I can be scatterbrains sometimes and wanted to get a lot out here

Wow there are a lot of great entries in this contest so far. I've been struggling to get my design finished in time. I just noticed the deadline has been changed from January 31st to February 17th. Looks like I don't have to panic quite as much as I thought. Honestly don't know what my chances are but have been enjoying building and looking forward to getting it posted as soon as I can :) Once again, good luck everybody!

This looks like an awesome contest! I'll have to try to see if there's anything I can come up for it. I won't be able to start working on it though until after Christmas

This looks awesome! Can't wait to get it! One of my favourite movies and have been looking forward to this for a long time

No luck yet :( the only ones I've found so far are from 1999-2000 with Star Wars in them. Still looking :)

I might have some buried at home somewhere. If I do, they'd probably be mid 90s, maybe a bit earlier. Most of that stuff from the 80s are either gone or severely worn out, much like my copy of the Legoland 6000 Ideas Book. I've lost a lot of pages from it. Castle is completely gone and there's only about half of the town section at the front. If I find them, I'll scan them in, but no guarantees